Scaffold Leadman (Texas City, TX) - Austin Industrial

About the role

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft‑craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. With more than 60 years of experience, the company serves the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing sectors. The Scaffold Lead will assist in the construction, assembly, maintenance, and dismantling of tubular scaffolding or other temporary structures.

Responsibilities

• Work at heights confidently and safely.
• Bring basic hand tools to the job site.
• Determine the type of scaffold needed for each project.
• Transport tubular scaffold or other structural material and erect the scaffold as instructed by the scaffold builder.
• Hoist scaffolding materials upward to erect temporary structures.
• Properly secure and level locking sections of scaffolding material.
• Secure scaffold to the permanent structure for added stability.
• Adhere to all OSHA, site‑specific, and Austin Industrial requirements for erecting and navigating scaffolding.
• Dismantle scaffolding when directed.
• Inspect and properly stow scaffolding material after dismantling.
• Perform final inspection of completed scaffolding.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• No minimum education requirements.
• 1–2 years’ experience in scaffolding preferred.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and to talk, hear, taste, or smell.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 lb; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 lb.
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.